From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from smtp109.sbc.mail.mud.yahoo.com (smtp109.sbc.mail.mud.yahoo.com [68.142.198.205]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca (Postfix) with SMTP id B3723C1A40E for ; Tue, 20 Apr 2010 19:07:11 -0400 (EDT) Received: (qmail 27203 invoked from network); 20 Apr 2010 23:06:45 -0000 Received: from localhost (myrowa@208.63.173.155 with plain) by smtp109.sbc.mail.mud.yahoo.com with SMTP; 20 Apr 2010 16:06:45 -0700 PDT X-Yahoo-SMTP: XOe3HSqswBASZ.SfZl8fqWtqtP4MkNp7cEfpPs64wphU X-YMail-OSG: t56M0mYVM1nstjXZZ726FHty6qsUe6u0e595FvH1S3AEDdE00xoDzN6jE8Lk_GIQYDcwoHJODjaXILQdjxkUcSarUFKXtB3hqbV6DKUF9LsP7BP7eBR.7NEAdt4GfRIawCRMKyosBcePwx8a4LFd7Ecad7QL77XW_xj1lA1ynUO6itQNPakpeG4bVgf9edhwZKVVwZRFkQzvHpWJI2vHFtnSv1rjRvGITMKfhtQCqn7VQltQ5ZL2Qpl4ZjDbZFt_ X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2010 18:06:44 -0500 (CDT) From: Adam Myrow To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Subject: Re: Dectalk Express and HALD In-Reply-To: <004a01cae0aa$726f7650$574e62f0$@com> Message-ID: References: <004a01cae0aa$726f7650$574e62f0$@com> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (LNX 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; format=flowed; charset=US-ASCII X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2010 23:07:12 -0000 I have a few lines in /etc/rc.d/rc.local which switch between the "soft" driver and Dectalk Express driver. The switch back and forth will get the Dectalk behaving again. Note that /etc/rc.d/rc.local is a Slackware-specific script, but other distros will have something similar. Here is what I have. After doing the switch back and forth, I execute speakupconf to load my settings. #configure Speakup #First, work around the annoying Dectalk bug. echo "soft" >/sys/accessibility/speakup/synth echo "dectlk" >/sys/accessibility/speakup/synth /usr/local/bin/speakupconf load